Thanks for putting the time into this project! Put me down as a vote for tiles, if that matters. I will still watch console, obviously, but it would probably be easier to know what is going on with tiles. In console mode I constantly have to examine things to remind myself what they are.
Either way, I am eagerly anticipating watching these videos! I have a few wins under my belt, but I know there are some gaping holes in my knowledge of how to best play Crawl.
My vote on what to run would be for a 15-rune stabber. Stabbers are probably my favorite build, but I tend to run into trouble near the end of the lair (when things start resisting hexes). I never know whether to start going melee or spells, or just start ninja-ing runes (and I'm not entirely sure how to best do that). Of course it depends on what I find, but I don't know how to best leverage what my character can already do.
I also see many comments in the forum like, "Once you get X, the game practically wins itself" or "Once you get X, just tab your way through the rest of the game". X is usually Haste, Invisibility, Boots of Speed, Control Teleport, Controlled Blink, etc. I have gotten those things and the game still is incredibly difficult to me and in particular I just seem to start glowing/mutating if I use those very much (other than the boots obviously). Perhaps you are planning on this, but maybe some discussion about how to best use those would be very helpful.
Thanks!
Wins: {SpVM}, {HOFi}, {MfSk, 15}, {MiFi}, {OpWz}, {VpEn}, {KoEn}, {DsFi}, {SpEn}x2, {MiBe}x2, {HEGl}, {VpEn}, {OpEn}, {HOGl, 10}, {DEEn}.
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